Hello all, I'm a fairly seasoned Windows XP user/hardware worker wither, so not a noob to technical issues/computing in general but to Linux, I am.

having decided to (nearly) give up on Windows entirely installed Mint on laptop (working fine, clean install formatting the NTFS) and desktop (on second drive hd1) from the Live CD (using the ISO of Daryna as downloaded from linuxmint.com) run into major GRUB trouble.

Install, rebootGRUB now loads (???) from HD1 (though boot harddisc in BIOS is set to HD0 anyway) and has three options, mint, mint recovery, memtest.No Windows.None of the Mint options work giving me "Error 17: Cannot mount partition"ad infinatum, tried guided install, tried unguided install, checked the discs my Windows is ok.Tried editing the .lst file in /boot/grub from liveCD but it won't let me edit to find Windows (as suggested to someone previously with similar problem)Tried editing an individual boot option in GRUB itself to find Windows, but it couldn't.Tried checking to see if there's an issue with the boot command in GRUB and it says: